Comments on: The Complete Field Guide to Testing Firefox 3 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/04/the_complete_field_guide_to_testing_firefox_3-2/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:13:58 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: laral http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/04/the_complete_field_guide_to_testing_firefox_3-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4316 laral Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:49:19 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/04/08/the_complete_field_guide_to_testing_firefox_3-2.html#comment-4316 <p>Hi Gina. I can't tell you how glad I am that I stumbled across this article. I've been limping along with a corrupted (can't edit application associations) installation of Firefox 1.5 because of absolute disasters I've had in the past trying to upgrade FF and still retain functionality of the previous release. When I saw how many of my extensions were incompatible with the new version, that sealed it for me. It was still better to keep the outdated corrupted version. </p> <p>You have enlightened me to the fact that there is a portable version that does not require you to trash your existing installation. As if that were not revelation enough, you also show how you can copy over your profile AND force compatibility with old extensions that are no longer available for current versions! I tried the 3.0 beta but couldn't reuse the session manager from TabMix Plus. So I installed FirefoxPortable 2.0 and using your methods have nearly full use of all my old extensions including the Session Manager. Wow! And the portable is so much faster loading and reloads pages much faster when I go back to a previous page. This is a real godsend.</p> Hi Gina. I can’t tell you how glad I am that I stumbled across this article. I’ve been limping along with a corrupted (can’t edit application associations) installation of Firefox 1.5 because of absolute disasters I’ve had in the past trying to upgrade FF and still retain functionality of the previous release. When I saw how many of my extensions were incompatible with the new version, that sealed it for me. It was still better to keep the outdated corrupted version.

You have enlightened me to the fact that there is a portable version that does not require you to trash your existing installation. As if that were not revelation enough, you also show how you can copy over your profile AND force compatibility with old extensions that are no longer available for current versions! I tried the 3.0 beta but couldn’t reuse the session manager from TabMix Plus. So I installed FirefoxPortable 2.0 and using your methods have nearly full use of all my old extensions including the Session Manager. Wow! And the portable is so much faster loading and reloads pages much faster when I go back to a previous page. This is a real godsend.

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